Obit: Clintsman, Helen Louise (1897 - 1969)

Contact: Dolores (Mohr) Kenyon
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Surnames: Clintsman, Moore, Reeder, Draeger, Goetz, Thompson, Stark, Schwarze, Olsen, Hemersbach, Decker, Carteron, Booher

----Source: Clark County Press (Neillsville, Clark Co., WI) 3/20/1969

Clintsman, Helen Louise (16 September 1897 - 4 March 1969)

Funeral services will be held at 2 p.m. Friday from Grace Methodist Church, Greenwood, for Mrs. Floyd Clintsman, 71, who died there Tuesday. She had entered the hospital March 4, for lung surgery. The Rev. Carl Booher will be in charge of the service. Burial will be made in the Greenwood Cemetery. Arrangements are being made by the Hill Funeral Home. The body will lie in state at 11 a.m. Friday in the church.

Mrs. Clintsman, nee Helen Louise Moore, was born September 16, 1897, in Bloomington, Ill. She received her education in Bloomington schools and in normal schools in Illinois. Following her marriage to Floyd Clintsman in April, 1931, the couple moved onto a farm in the Greenwood area, where they remained until 1953, when they moved into the city. During the summers they operated a summer concession in Wisconsin and the upper peninsula of Michigan.

She was a member of the Greenwood Order of Eastern Star and of Forest Queen Lodge, Royal Neighbors of America.

Surviving are her husband; a son, Robert, of Greenwood; five grandchildren; a sister, Mrs. Pearl Reeder of Bloomington, Ill.; and a brother, Charles Moore of Roodhouse, Ill.

----Source: Clark County Press (Neillsville, Clark Co., WI) 3/27/1969

Funeral services for Mrs. Floyd Clintsman were held last Friday afternoon from the Grace United Methodist Church. The Rev. Carl Booher officiated. Burial was made in the Greenwood Cemetery.

Pallbearers were: George Stark, Ewald Schwarze, Howard Olsen, Alfons Hemersbach, Donald Decker and Viv Carteron. Gary Schultz sang “In the Garden” and “Be Still My Soul” accompanied on the organ by Mrs. Carl Booher.

Relatives from away who attended were: Mrs. Pearl Reeder of Bloomington, Ill.; Mr. and Mrs. John Reeder of Farmers City, Ill.; Mr. and Mrs. Harold Reeder and son of Milwaukee; Mr. and Mrs. Charles D. Moore of Roodhouse, Ill.; Charles Ray Moore of Orlando Park, Ill.; Mr. and Mrs. George Moore of Byron, Ill.; Mr. and Mrs. Donald Moore of Aniwa; Mrs. Rachel Draeger and Mrs. Marion Draeger of Gilman; Mr. and Mrs. James Goetz of Stevens Point; Mr. and Mrs. Alfred Thompson of Curtiss; Mr. and Mrs. Dale Clintsman of Loyal; and others from Stratford, Owen and Dorchester.